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THE PSYCHOLOGISTS.
'yssMUAL SESSION OF THE AMERICAN
PSYCHOLOGISTS
nauned in the Killings Library Tuesday
--Tlie Eminent Philologists Present.
Nsearned Addresses Delivered aud
Address of Welcome by presi-
dent Buckham.


afternoon. A large number of eminent
Psychologists from all parts of the country
are in attendance, including such
representative scholars aud pathological
sathorite as Prof. James B. Greenough
al Harvard University, Dr. Cyrus Adler
sud DR.. Herbert Weir Smyth of Johns
Hopkins University, Prof. William F.
Allen of the University of Wisconsin,
Prof. r. b. Richardson of Dartmouth col
icge, Prof. James s. Blackwell of the
University of Missouri Prof. W. G. Hale
az Cornell Prot. Jastrow of the Univer-
sS&y of Pennsylvania, Prof. March of La
layette college, Prof f.. NJ. Pease of Bow
'Eoin and many other highly distinguished
specialists. The afternoon session was
devoted to discussion and the reading of
shs following papers: "Murray's New
English Dictionary" by Rev. DR.. c. X.
Nelson of Brookville, Md. "Grote on
[Fhucdides vi, H." by Prof. W. S. Scar
Borough of Wherefore University, ONO
The Tradition of CT1ar's Gallo War
from Cicero to Orosius," by Dr. f. G..
Eihler of New York city. The above
TEpers were learned and able in a remark
-shle degree and were listened to with
,iose and gratifed attention by the audi
eAce OF scholars present.
THE EVENING EXERCISES
TIC evening exercises of the session
u ere held in the chapel of the University.
Hnd good sized audience of Burlington's
citizens, including many ladies, was pres
4ut. An address of welcome was deliv-
cred to the association by President
Buckham. who spoke, in brief, as fol-
!Svs;
PRESIDENT BUCKHAM's ADDRESS.
II seems to me that an address to a
Pathological association should at least he
pathological. 1t would be falling below
he dignity of the occasion to address this
QNdy in the ordinary language of the
street and the market, And the address
should be historic. | should like to
lnake few remarks in the language of
She primitive race of mankind, and ought
30 add Il few words in Sanskrit and then
lross into Europe and take up the various
ado European languages. ! ought to
lay something too in old Roman
aud in later Greek, in all the
GSuents cf these languages, and
~ bring down the stream OF language
through the old English and close my
speech with some OF the very expressive
though not canonical language used by
The young men of the present day But |
Gaanot do this. can do no better than
6ignply in plain English to welcome you,
Ttnd say that you honor us by your pres
'eDCe, and that hope you will come again,
and that you will always find the latch
string on the outside. When the secre-
taTy of your association wrote. q year ago,
suggesting that the association would
perhaps like to be invited to Burlington,
81 seemed to me good deal to do for this
restitution, one of the smaller colleges of
the country, to invite this learned body
here, l had the idea that the association
VAS "a body of great dignity and learning,
and that it might not ne quite modest in
as 10 think of attracting you hither. But
OIL second thought it occurred to me that
shore was no place in the United States
more Hitting for the gathering of SUCH
body than the home of that foremost
pathological scholar of the IL s + eneration,
George =. Marsh. 1t occurred to me that
. was eminently fitting that this associa-
p'9D should meet in the State where he
Jad his residence, and especially in the
g,ty which has the advantage of
possessing that unique and now famous
private library which he collected at such
expense and with such labor. And it
seemed supremely fit that the association
sAould meet in that library, in the very
@3om which contains that collection OF
AoJhs. The association for the advance
neet of the science of philology ought to
11G itself at home in any reputable
i.Werican college. In the colleges of the
Jnited States, as rule, the spirit of phi
ioiogy, of research in language and litera-
tdtcs philology and the study of
aasataI and essential branches of
liberal education. The study of
language is the study of human nature
ava tne human mind in its noblest, deep
II, yCost fruitful creation. And so any
University might be proud to offer Its
F.!ilties, to open its buildings to the
american Theological association.
PRESIDENT Buckham's words of welcome
acre received with warm applause. In
TIA absence of the president Of the asso-
eganoI,, Prof. Augustus G. Merriam of
columbia college, the address which was
% 6ave been delivered by him was read by
5he secretary of the association, Prof.
irhr II Wright of Cambridge, Mass.
IRE address was upon The Years Dis
in Greece" and while doubtless of alb
sorting interest to the eminent phi
OiOgists present was so abstruse and
s:nOlarly as to completely battle the in
5etlect unframed to grapple with the
Vroblems of the obsolete digamma ano
Ss.s fluctuations of the Archaic sigma
49, address was very clearly and care
eyZiiy read by Prof Wright and was &C
so,rpanied by diagrams, somewhat afte
tya manner of Browning's poems in thu
rgcent volumes devoted to their eluclda
UOn The greatest discoveries made dur
iM.; the year. from excavated in
scripticns, said the speaker, occu
u th1 Greek alphabet, Inscribed frag
sssg21s of pottery and stone show
rSql.1. Hable advance from the Archaic t
tsi1 more simple modern forms. The eA
,ssFNtions of the year disclose the Miletia
~ naOet in an earlier stage than has ye
.w,-n known. The address was chiefly de
Fcc ed to describing the peculiar forms c
shese archaic letters and the TRANSLATE
Of the inscriptions in which they occur.
EBteresaing Meetings WednesdAy-Recel
rion 10 the Association In the Evening.
The meetings of the American Philolo
sal association were continued all de
~ educ sday, in spite of the intense hea
The sessions were held in the Billing
library, and were attended by numb
Of our citizens as well as by the membe
Of the association. About Is papers we
7esd during the day, all of them profoun
20 scholarly and full of fresh and origin
vesearch. These, with the subseque
-s.Aa